Yao Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor

What's New?

[Nov, 2018] We have three papers (eavesdropper entrapment, CFHider, and orthogonality sabotaging) accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2019.
[Oct, 2018] Yao is invited to serve in the organization committee of IEEE Conferences on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2019.
[Jul, 2018] Our work on training-agnostic keystroke inference is to appear in ACM CCS 2018.
[Jun, 2018] The paper to detect unauthorized walking behavior in smart phones has been accepted by IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing.
[Apr, 2018] Yao is invited to serve in the organization committee of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2019.
[Apr, 2018] Song will continue his academic career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Oklahoma.
[Apr, 2018] Ian Markwood and Song Fang have successfully defended their Ph.D. theses.
[Mar, 2018] The work on enhancing the security of voice control systems is to appear in ACM MobiHoc 2018.
[Oct, 2017] Yao was invited to serve the IoT security panel at IEEE CNS 2017.
[Oct, 2017] The work on key establishment via RSS trajectory matching is to appear in IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security.

Short Bio

Dr. Yao Liu is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of South Florida.
She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from
North Carolina State University in 2012.
Dr. Liu's research is related to computer and network security,
with an emphasis on designing and implementing defense approaches that protect emerging
wireless technologies from being undermined by adversaries. Her research interest also
lies in the security of cyber-physical systems, especially in smart grid security.
She is an NSF CAREER Award recipient in 2016.